An undocumented Mexican immigrant who resides with his wife and two young children in Havana was taken into custody this morning by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

The man, who has no criminal history or previous deportation order, now faces possible deportation to his native country, said Neil Rambana, a Tallahassee attorney who’s working with the man’s family. Rambana declined to release the man’s name or information about his job because of the sensitivity of the case.

Rambana said it was unclear whether ICE was conducting a sweep of the Havana area in Gadsden County, which is home to a number of migrant workers and undocumented immigrants. He said the man was taken into custody and transported to an ICE detention facility in Crawfordville after answering a knock on his door.

“My understanding is that Immigration has been going through the county with warrants for specific individuals and they have approached different residences with the presentation of we’re looking for a specific person,” Rambana said. “And the people who have been answering the door and trying to assist in any way possible are then questioned about their particular status. And from there, they have been detaining those who they feel don’t have proper documentation.”

A spokeswoman for ICE was looking into the matter but did not immediately provide information about the man's case.

Rambana said the man has lived in the Havana area for 11 years and that his children are U.S. citizens. He said the man, who's in his 30s, has established roots, poses no danger to the community and is not a flight risk. He said the man’s family was “completely shocked” by his abrupt detention.

“It’s gotten to the point where your cooperation is now putting you in jeopardy of being split up from your family,” Rambana said. “And this person was cooperating because law enforcement said they were looking for a particular person. And (the family) had no information to assist. But lo and behold because they were talking to them, law enforcement took the additional step to question their status and from there detain (him).”

The man’s detention is another sign of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, something he promised in his 2016 campaign. Rambana said previous administrations focused enforcement efforts on people with serious criminal problems and recidivists, or undocumented immigrants with a history of being kicked out and returning to the United States. But he said enforcement has become “indiscriminate” under the Trump administration.

“And that has left a lot of families shrinking back into the shadows,” Rambana said. “So what we’re seeing from our conversations with people who are undocumented is they fear going to court for receiving a traffic citation, they fear to report crimes that have been committed against them. We’ve had people who have been railroaded by landlords who threaten to report them if they don’t pay certain fees that have been exaggerated or increased as a result of their immigration status.”

Last week, the American Immigration Lawyers Association released a report critical of Trump’s immigration policies, including a renewed push to arrest undocumented people with no criminal histories. Immigration arrests went from 110,104 in fiscal year 2016 to 143,470 in fiscal year 2017, a jump of 30 percent. Arrests of people with no criminal histories went up even more, from 15,253 to 37,734, an increase of 146 percent.

Rambana said he was told by ICE that the agency will likely decide Friday whether to release the man on his own recognizance or set bail. He plans to ask an immigration judge to cancel his deportation based on factors including his good moral character and the hardship his deportation would put on his family.

“We could use this now that we have him in the system to ask a judge to give him permanent residence,” Rambana said. “It’s a tall order. The hardship is the most difficult point because they want to know what makes him substantially different from anyone else who’s here undocumented.”

Contact Jeff Burlew at jburlew@tallahassee.com or follow @JeffBurlew on Twitter.